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April 10, 2004

Planetarium will be temporarily offline.

Planetarium will be temporarily offline.

"When two people take note of the smallest detail, and stop and pay attention, that is the very definition of art."
- Guy Davenport

April 05, 2004

A Few of Our Favorite Things

We were gone for the weekend, so sorry. Had to see some folks about some things, but we're back and excited for the new week. Here's a peek at what's been on our minds:

1. Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? This is Blondie for the New Millenium. Planetarium's already in love with the lead singer.

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Oh, yes, you can run, but you can't hide. Eventually, you WILL see this, and when you do, it'll be time for a good stiff drink. As well as a rather ugly confrontation with your own neuroses.

3. Can - Anthology. You know how there's this big gap in German history between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall? You ever what what they were doing during that time? Well, here it is. This is the first Can anthology that really compiles together a great representative spectrum of what they were all about. Go Kraut-rock!

4. Planetarium's Entertainment Weekly subscription. The snarkiest and most snidely intellectual of the weekly pop-trash mags, EW has the sense of humor you always wish you had when putting down popular culture. Like referring to the film Waterworld as Fishtar.

5. Air America Radio. Even Chuck D is kicking ass now.

6. "Clark Gable", off of The Postal Service - Give Up. A song that somehow manages to completely rock and simultaneously completely depress us. The perfect melancholy, what-do-I-do-now, the-world-seems-cold-and-foreboding song. God bless the mutation of emo into electremo (this term copyright Planetarium 2004).